All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

  • -- Robert Louis Stevenson 罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森

所有的语言,无论是书面的还是口头的,都是一种死亡的语言,直到它找到一个愿意并有准备的听众。

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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

上帝,大自然的全能创造者和世界的缔造者,给人类留下了深刻的印象。

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it.

没有一本书是写不完的。当我们在做这件事的时候,我们学到了足够的东西,当我们离开它的时候,我们会发现它不够成熟。

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

一个人的出生地的口音就像他的讲话一样,留在他的头脑和心里。

A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove.

一个写作的厨师和一个烹饪作家必须在桌子上和炉子上大胆。

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

我对人们谈论伦敦的声音作出反应——对伦敦的声音作出反应。